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Thirteen Counties in 1776; First Mention; Four County Courts; Four Counties

in East Jersey Created in 1682,-Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth;

Boundary Lines; Counties Might be Divided into Townships; Defects in

Description of Lines; Attempts to Remedy Defects; In 1693, Counties in

East Jersey Divided into Townships; Somerset County, Boundary of;

Tenths; Representatives from, not from Counties; Officers Appointed for

Tenths, not for Counties; Courts at Burlington and Salem; Cape May, its

Boundary, Change in; Line Between Burlington and Gloucester Changed;

Burlington; Salem; Cape May; Bounds of Bergen, Essex, Somerset, Mid-

dlesex, Monmouth; Line Between Burlington and Gloucester; Assanpink,

Pensauquin and Old Man's Creeks; Salem; Cape May; Jecak's or West

Creek; Nine Counties in New Jersey at Time of the Surrender; Partition

Line Between East and West Jersey; Keith Line; Act of 1719 Providing

for Running Partition Line; Lawrence Line; Suit Settling which the Proper

Line; Cornelius vs. Giberson; Hunterdon; Hunterdon, Boundary of;

Boundary Line Between Somerset, Middlesex and Monmouth; Morris

County, Boundary of; Part of Essex Annexed to Somerset; Cumberland,

Boundary of; Townships in Cumberland; Somerset and Morris; Sussex

County, Boundary of; Legislature Passes Act Allowing Counties to Change

Their Boundary Lines; Electors in Morris, Cumberland and Sussex Al-

lowed to Vote in their own County; Each Allowed Two Representatives;

Thirteen Counties in New Jersey in 1776; Townships Made Corporations;

Wards and Precincts; Boundary Lines of Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth,

Salem, Cumberland; Cape May Defined; Warren, Bounds of; Camden,

Bounds of; Ocean, Bounds of; Now Twenty-one Counties in the State........302-32

Courts of New Jersey not Established on any Systematic Plan until the 18th

Century; Population, at first, not Homogeneous; Dutch, Norwegians, Puri-

tans, English, Quakers, Swedes and a few Danes; Unsettled Character of

the Province Prevented any System; Settlers too Busy in Obtaining Sub-

sistence; Courts not Needed; Division into Two Provinces Retarded Estab-

lishment of Courts; First Court at Bergen in 1661; Surrender of Government

to Queen Anne had no Influence on this Court at Bergen; Court at Newark

Created by Town Meeting in January, 1666; Character of this Court; First

Legislative Action about Courts in 1675; Local Court at Woodbridge in 1668;

Governor Carteret sought Aid from these Courts; Courts in Monmouth, in

1667 Created by Governor Nicholls, by Patent; Three kinds of Court

Created by Legislature, in 1675; In 1682 Change Made; Courts of Small

Causes; High Sheriff; Court of Common Right; Comparison with Modern

Courts; No Rules for Guidance of Ancient Tribunals; Grand Jury; Courts

of Sessions; In 1693, Supreme Court of Appeals; Influence of Quakers on

Character of Punishments; Contrast between Penal Code of West Jersey

and that of East Jersey; Thirteen Crimes Punishable with Death in East

Jersey; No Enactment in West Jersey Providing for Death Penalty; In-

fluence of "Concessions and Agreements" on Courts in West Jersey; Court

of Chancery; Constitution of 1776; Courts of Appeals under Constitution of

1776; Defects of this Court; Cornbury's Action Relative to Courts; Creation

of County Circuit Courts; Good Results of these Courts; Pleading in the

Courts; Styles of Action Changed; First Term of Supreme Court in the

Colony; Roger Mompesson; William Pinhorne; Thomas Gordon; David

Jamison; William Trent; Robert Lettice Hooper; Thomas Farmar; Lewis

Morris; Daniel Coxe; Robert Hunter Morris; William Aynsley; Nathaniel

Jones; Richard Salter; Samuel Nevill; Charles Read; Frederick Smyth;

David Ogden; Richard Stockton; David Brearley; Provincial Congress

1776; Rev. Jacob Green; Constitution of 1776; Samuel Tucker; John De

Hart; Robert Morris; John Cleves Symmes; Isaac Smith; James Kinsey;

John Chetwood; Elisha Boudinot; Andrew Kirkpatrick; William S. Pen-

nington; William Rossell; Mahlon Dickerson; Samuel L. Southard;

Gabriel H. Ford; Charles Ewing; George K. Drake; Joseph C. Horn-

blower; John Moore White; Thomas C. Ryerson; William L. Dayton;

Daniel Elmer; James S. Nevius; Ira C. Whitehead; Thomas P. Carpenter;

Joseph F. Randolph; Henry W. Green; E. B. D. Ogden; Lucius Q. C.

Elmer; Stacy G. Potts; Daniel Haines; Peter Vredenberg; Martin Ryer-

son; Edward W. Whelpley; William S. Clawson; John Van Dyke; George

H. Brown; George S. Woodhull; Joel Parker; Mercer Beasley; Joseph D.

Bedle; Van Cleve Dalrimple; David A. Depue; Bennet Van Syckel; Ed-

ward W. Scudder; Manning M. Knapp: Jonathan Dixon, jr.; Alfred Reed;

William J. Magie; Charles Garrison; George C. Ludlow; Gilbert Collins..

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